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To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: Increase ScrollLock buffer size on FreeBSD 4.5R2? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 03 Mar 2002 23:15:19 +0100."
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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 10:14:18 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
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> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:15:19 +0100
> From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 09:28:28PM +0100, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:02:40AM -0600, Bob Giesen wrote:
> > > On Sunday 03 March 2002 07:45 am, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > > > Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> writes:
> > > > > Hello, could you tell me if there is a man page about the "Scroll
> > > > > Lock" key and the buffer size [limit and how to increase this]? 
> > > > > Thanks kindly,
> > > >
> > > > man vidcontrol
> > > 
> > >    This man page doesn't seem to hold the answer, but refers to 
> > > syscons (4) -- which seems to indicate that the kernel can be 
> > > configured with the SC_HISTORY_SIZE=n option, where n is the desired 
> > > number of buffer lines (which defaults to 100).
> > > 
> > man vidcontol
> > .
> > .
> > 
> >      -h size
> >      Set the size of the history (scrollback) buffer to size lines.
> 
> Except that you can't increase the size of the buffer beyond what is
> specified by the SC_HISTORY_SIZE option.

I believe that the correct reference for this is /sys/i386/conf/LINT.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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